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Well I hope you stay in remission forever, I am so happy for you.
Keep up the good work.
Binnie xx
It is so good to read posts from all the survivors!!!! I think many go away from the boards after feeling better, I'm glad some stick around and make us feel good and full of hope!!
I was diagnosed on 05/05/08. I went into remission after the first induction and my BMB was clear on 06/06/08. On 10/06/09 I will have been in remission 16 months. Just taking things one day at a time.
That is kinda my story too. I went into remission after the induction and had 4 more rounds of chemo, but I went to the hematologist last week. He told me I was in remission from the end of induction, so I can count remission from that date. That puts me 18 months out now. AND DOOING FINE!!!! WOOOOO HOOOOOOOO
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart. You're shaking my confidence daily.
Not really but I've never known a Cecilia I could "sing" that line to. (You must get sick of it.)
congratulations. I hope your remission lasts a vvery long lifetime.
Hooray Laura! hooray Cecelia!! Love to hear you are both doing great and still in remission!!!!!!
Thanks, yes I hear it some 100 times or so, but each time doesn't always come with such a good wish for my recovery on the end. Thanks so much. I really feel there was so many people out there blessing my treatment and continued recovery I couldn't go wrong. I appreciate your well wishes. And you can sing to me anytime. C
Thanks for the good energy sent my way. I appreciate everyone who send positive thoughts with good intentions. I am soaking up the light. C
My son Paul is getting ready to celebrate his 5th Anniversary of his SCT on November 22. Paul was diagnosed with AML M4 on 8/22/04 and had a matched sibling SCT on 11/22/04. Paul is now almost 17 years old, a healthy teenager, driving, playing sports and never looks back. It was a long, hard road, but we reached the other side and wishing that all will follow in Paul's footsteps.
That is so good to hear! What a great picture of the two of you also! Wishing him a great future!
I was diagnosed with AML on Nov 4 1992 at age 13. 17 years later I'm still kicking with about 16 years of remission behind me. It's good to see so many people with happy endings.
So happy for you both Lionscourt and Diane's son Paul! It is so wonderful that there are survivors posting here and continuing to increase the fight for those still fighting! It does make me feel better to know that there are those who still have their lives after AML... and if anything my mothers 3 year fight will help someone and possibly lead to knew ideas and cures down the road! Hugs, nicole
Hi. This is my first visit ever to this forum and please excuse any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. It's not that easy to cry and type at the same time. There are so many brave people and loved ones here that it's twisting my heart in knots.
I'm proud to say that I'm an AML survivor of, well..I'm not sure how to answer that from my bone marrow transplant can be my starting point, and that's now 20 months ago! Time flies(I'dlike to add whilst having fun, but that hasn't been the case). I was diagnosed with AML in October06 and was treated with chemo, then was given the all clear in June 07, relapsed on my birthday (Sept 25), more chemo and then a bone marrow transplant in Feb08. Brilliant! Given the all clear in May08. Diagnosed with chronic GVHDlate summer and diagnosed with BOSin Oct 08. Unfortunately the GVHD had gone to my lungs and led to my body rejecting my lungs as foreign matter. That was bad. Had a double lung transplant earlier this year and am doing amazingly well!!! I can breathe, walk and talk again. I could talk and breathe as soon as I awoke from the lung surgery. Now I'm out running and working out every day. Still have cGVHDwhich plays havoc with mostly my eyes, but believe me, I'm not complaining!!!!! After being diagnosed with BOS, I never thought that I'dl ook back on cGVHD as "the good times"!
My sister made me promise not to log on to any forums whilst I was ill and now I understand why, this was/is her favorite site. She followed it slavishly and told me loads of facts and stories that contributed to my recovery. She mentioned that she thought it was a shame that people left the site when they recovered. Something I think everyone on this site can relate to. You don't really want to relive this experience.
The thing is though that once the body recovers the mind needs some tending loving care as well, as that tends to be largely ignored whilst concentrating on surviving. That's my little trouble at the moment. And I do mean little, but I know that I have to deal with it otherwise it will just fester and grow. I don't feel that I can talk to anyone (except my GP who survived cancer by the skin of his teeth, and he suggested writing as an outlet) I think everyone else sees that I'm happy and healthy and have nothing to complain about (which is 99% true) and god knows that it's been as tough, if not tougher on my family then me, so I can't burden them further. They don't need me whining and having little emotional melt downs at the weirdest things. So I recently started a blog to blow off some steam. It actually helps
Thanks for this wonderful, informative site and I'll definitely visit this again. Stray strong everyone, my thoughts are with you all.
Sorry, forgot a couple of things there. A lot going on upstairs at the moment
I was 35 when first diagonosed with AML M0/M! and my BMT was an unrealted donor (German If I'm correct). None of my siblings were matches, so thank goodness for the regisitar.
I stil don't have 'normal' hair after the BMT. I was told beforehand that this sometimes happens. It's been more of the kind that a baby is born with. Started out tiny, sparse and basically just a hair here and there. It's getting better with age though (my hair is nearly 2 soon. Tell me about a bad hair day During chemo though it came back in all different colours and shapes and thick as it had always been. But it's only hair, and if you take my actual age and hair age, i guess I'm 19 again. Not bad. After the first induction and chemo i went into early menopause which was a shame as I didn't have any children from before. We allways think there's time. On the huge plus side, I'm blessed with beautiful nieces and nephews that i couldn't love more if they were my own.
As to why God does what he does, I don't think anyone can answer that. I do believe and pray, but when it comes to which i'd go with if i had to choose, it would be modern medicine every time. Miracles happen every day. When a baby is born, what could be more of a miracle then that!? What worked for me was a combination of both. But each to their own.But isn't it written that god helps those that help themselves? Bad things happen to good people and vice versa, i think it would drive us all nuts if we used too much time thinking about the whys and such.
Soldol, i am totally amazed and just want to wish you well in your ongoing journey.
While it had crossed my mind, I had not heard of transplant patients having solid organ transplant after a stem cell transplant and was curious about it. We have had some mighty sick folks on the transplant forum, i think of ami and her lung problems, that i wondered would they benefit and even be eligible for transplant. It used to be that solid organ transplants were on antirejection meds such as cyclosporine for life. Is that how it is now??
Again, i wish you the best.


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MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/21/2010) – The University of Minnesota will host a major conference on dams – "Experiments on Rivers: The Consequence of Dams" – from November 11-12, 2010 at the Nolte Center on the Twin Cities campus and in the auditorium of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory near downtown Minneapolis.
The goal of the conference is to develop a research and policy agenda around the long-term future of dams and other large-scale engineered structures in rivers. Conference attendees will be encouraged to think broadly about the consequences of dams on human and natural ecosystems and begin to raise questions about the steps that might be necessary if we consider removal of dams.
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In the early 1980s it became possible to insert genes designed in the laboratory into plants. This innovation gave birth to the dream of many plant breeders who had long craved to continue improvements of crops using novel genes. The first commercial crops were introduced into US agriculture in 1996-7 and they have been extraordinarily successful ever since. In Europe however, movements such as Greenpeace and organic food movements have fought their introduction. In the United Kingdom in particular the press has sensationalized such crops, distorting the scientific information on them and misleading the public. It has created a very difficult situation in Europe with high level political, economic, cultural and ethical ramifications.
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1. Assessment Fee increases
Please note new application forms - with slightly increased assessment fees - are EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. The new fees relevant to each assessment pathway are identified on the appropriate forms below (under 'Application Process'). Fee increases are also applicable to the Standard Admin Fee form and the Formal Appeal form. Note that the new fees supersede advice on page 29 of the July 2012 version of the MSA Booklet, which will be updated shortly.
2. Work Experience
The following conditions for the assessment of Work Experience as an additional service are to be noted:
- work experience must be relevant to the assessed outcome, in terms of occupation and engineering category
- work experience cannot be claimed before completion of the applicable qualification
- work experience should be paid at the market or salaried rate for engineering professionals. Clients receiving stipends, living allowances or scholarships will not generally be considered to be salaried
- whilst 'full-time' work constitutes 20 hrs/wk or more, this must be regular employment and not include long periods of unpaid leave
- in general, research activities undertaken as a PhD student, or work experience as a Research Assistant/Fellow whilst undertaking a PhD, etc, can not usually be assessed as relevant for this purpose
- the employment evidence as listed on page 25 of the MSA Booklet is crucial to the acceptance of any claimed work experience
3. Assessment services associated with DIBP's points test
These will assist in the subsequent claiming of DIBP points as part of the overall migration application - see this information on the points test:
a. Standard Assessment Service
- the standard assessment outcome will include an opinion on the comparable relevant Australian level qualification to the client's overseas qualification used in support of the assessed outcome. Note that the standard CDR fee will increase to $620 less GST ($682 incl. GST)
b. Additional Assessment Services (Check appropriate box and fee payment on relevant application form)
- where an overseas PhD engineering degree is held, which may not necessarily need to be considered in the assessment process to provide the nominated outcome, then an additional assessing service is available to provide an opinion on the qualification as comparable to an Australian PhD. (Extra fee applicable - $200 + GST)
- for those who have at least 1 year Australian work experience, and / or at least 3 years Overseas work experience in their nominated occupation or a closely-related occupation, then an additional assessing service is available to provide an opinion on the skilled employment claims. High-level evidence will be required to support any claim of work experience as well as completion of this form. (Extra fee applicable - $250 + GST)
See Section D of the July 2012 edition of the MSA Booklet for details.
Clients who already hold an assessment outcome - and have NOT yet applied to DIAC - may seek the additional assessment services as above. In these cases, they will need to seek an updated assessment outcome by returning the ORIGINAL outcome letter, completing the relevant part(s) of the Admin Fee payment form, making the additional fee payment, and including the necessary supporting documentation.
Skilled Migration to Australia
Engineers Australia is the designated authority to assess professional qualifications in engineering for the purposes of skilled migration to Australia. If you want to migrate to Australia and require an engineering skills assessment, please do the following:
1. Read the Migration Skills Assessment Booklet
2. Download the relevant application form:
3. Prepare and submit your application.
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- You have engineering technician or trade qualifications (visit the Skilled Occupation Listing SOL to find your assessing authority)
Current assessment turnaround time
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Generally, for:
- Non-accredited qualifications – turnaround is currently about 19 weeks from the date of receipt. Note this time can be highly variable depending on numbers of incoming applications
- Accredited Australian and Accord qualifications – currently about 8 weeks.
Please do NOT contact Engineers Australia within these timeframes, as it will further delay processing times for all applications.
Under SkillSelect, DIAC specify that an assessment outcome (and IELTS test result) be obtained PRIOR to lodging your EoI, but mandate that any assessment letter MUST predate the date of any formal invitation extended. In the event that an applicant does NOT hold an assessment letter at the time of EoI lodgment, then any claim for urgent assessment to meet an anticipated invitation will NOT be entertained.
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I have non-recognised qualifications
The Summary Statement tables below will assist you in preparing your CDR. Choose the one relevant to your occupational category and complete it after you have written your three Career Episodes. Then print your Summary Statement and include it with your application.
- Summary Statement of Professional Engineer
- Summary Statement of Engineering Technologist
- Summary Statement of Engineering Associate
- Summary Statement of Engineering Manager
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- Application for Assessment of Australian Engineering Qualifications
- Application for Assessment of Professional Engineering Qualifications (Washington Accord)
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A clear talent driven by a great imagination; he has defied the heavy testosterone of the MC battles where he began and subsequently outgrew; he has held a capacity audience at The Sydney Opera House in the palm of his hand as he recited Dr Seuss; he has toured nationally on many occasions to sell-out crowds. He has performed at The Big Day Out, Come Together, Sprung Hip Hop Festival, Peats Ridge & Sydney Festival and supported the likes of Public Enemy, Dizzie Rascal, Drapht, Mac Miller and The Herd.
The Tongue quickly connected with a national audience with radio hits 'The Punch' and 'Bad Education', taken from his first EP of the same name.
Shock & Awe, his ambitious debut album cemented his place in the local hip hop landscape with hits such as 'Real Thing'.
His second album, Alternative Energy saw a more progressive and mature approach, with favourites 'The Show' and 'Crazy' featuring heavily on radio. The record was feature album on both FBi and 2SER, and named Album Of The Week by Drum Media and The Brag.
His third album, Surrender To Victory is his most accomplished to date. It sees The Tongue coming into his own as artist and collaborator, articulating a positive vision beyond the confines of modern Australian hip hop. The record is produced entirely by the incredibly talented Cam Bluff, one of local hip hop's most exciting producers. It's been heralded by critics for being a triumph of The Tongue's vision - a uniquely positive and engaging listen.
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If you're an avid PHP developer, you are probably aware of the GD library extension. For those who are unfamiliar, the GD library allows you to alter, manipulate, and create images quite simply. Today, we'll learn the basics of using PHP and the GD library.
First Things First
You will need to make sure the GD library is installed and activated on your server. Don't know how to do this? No worries, just create a PHP file on your server and type in:
<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>
Now access the page in your browser and you'll see a giant list detailing the features of your version of PHP. Scroll down a bit and look for the 'GD' heading to make sure it is enabled. If it is not, you will need to contact your hosting company. Luckily, most servers I have worked on already have the GD library installed and activated.
If you would like to read more about the GD library, be sure to check out the GD manual introduction.
The Basics
Let's go over some basics to get us started. Firstly, we will want to make sure we report all errors to the browser. We can do so by entering the following at the very top of our php file:
<?php ini_set("display_errors", "1"); error_reporting(E_ALL); ?>
Be Square
Let's start off simple and use PHP to create a blue square for us – nothing amazing but we need to know the basics first. To achieve our square, we need to do the following:
- Set our content type as an image so the browser can properly interpret the script.
- Create a new blank image canvas with a certain width and height.
- Set our background color to blue.
- Save the final image and output it to the browser.
- Clear up any memory used to create and store the image.
- Call the image from our index.php file to be displayed.
Now that we have our steps and process for the square worked out, we can start to code. I did my best to comment each step of code, and will go through any specific functions or processes after the code snippet. That said, here is the code for our square. Once pasted in, save this file as 'basic_square.php':
<?php //Report any errors ini_set ("display_errors", "1"); error_reporting(E_ALL); //Set the correct content type header('content-type: image/png'); //Create our basic image stream //125px width, 125px height $image = imagecreate(125, 125); //Set the background color $blue = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 255); //Set up another color just to show how the first color declared is used as the background color when we use imagecreate() //Notice how blue is applied to the background, *not* red. $red = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 0, 0); //save the image as a png and output imagepng($image); //Clear up memory used imagedestroy($image); ?>
Let's go through each function and step in the code above so we can better understand what is going on here.
- As mentioned, we report any errors to the browser so we can fix any bugs.
- Next we use the header() function to set our content type to a png image.
- We store the image in a variable named 'image' and create our basic image stream and declare our width and height. See imagecreate() for more information.
- Next up we use the imagecolorallocate function to store the color blue in our 'blue' variable. Also notice how the first color declared will be set as the background using imagecreate. So blue will be our background color, not red.
- We use imagepng() to save our final image, it takes additional parameters if you would like to save it to a directory.
- Lastly, we clear up the memory used by calling imagedestroy().
We can access and view our blue square by going to blue_square.php, or even better, we can link to it on our index.php like so:

Assuming all went well, you should see a blue square like the one below:
Hello World
Now that we have the very basics of creating an image, let's create an image with some text and a font of our choice. We can use any font we wish, as long as the font is a TrueType Font (.tff). For the next few examples I will be using the font 'Advent' which you can find here. We will create the string 'Hello World' on a dark gray background square. Let's take a look at the source code first and then go over each step.
<?php //Report any errors ini_set("display_errors", "1"); error_reporting(E_ALL); //Set the content type header('content-type: image/png'); //Create our basic image stream 300x300 pixels $image = imagecreate(300, 300); //Set up some colors, use a dark gray as the background color $dark_grey = imagecolorallocate($image, 102, 102, 102); $white = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); //Set the path to our true type font $font_path = 'advent_light'; //Set our text string $string = 'Hello World!'; //Write our text to the existing image. imagettftext($image, 50, 0, 10, 160, $white, $font_path, $string); //Create our final image imagepng($image); //Clear up memory imagedestroy($image); ?>
Save the code in a file named 'hello_world.php' and access it using the same technique as we mentioned above. So what is different here?
- We set the dimensions to 300×300 pixels and used a dark grey background.
- Notice how we declared a variable named font path and used the name of our font as the value? This is because later in our script we need to know the path to our font so we can use PHP to draw our text. Also take careful note of how there is no extension. To quote the manual:
Depending on which version of the GD library PHP is using, when font file does not begin with a leading / then .ttf will be appended.
This means since the file to our font does not have a '/' in front of it, .tff will automatically be appended.
- Next we set our string, 'Hello World!', and store it in a variable for later use.
- The main function to note here is next, imagettftext(), which takes 8 parameters. Resource $image, float $size, float $angle, int $x, int $y, int $color, string $fontfile, string $text (in that order).
Save this page and access it however you wish; you should get an image that looks like the one below.
Angle it!
Did you catch that one of the parameters of the imagettftext function is 'angle'. This means we can angle our string for some unique results. Let's revisit our code from above and angle our 'Hello World!' text.
<?php //Report any errors ini_set("display_errors", "1"); error_reporting(E_ALL); //Set the content type header('content-type: image/png'); //Create our basic image stream 300x300 pixels $image = imagecreate(300, 300); //Set up some colors, use a dark gray as the background color $dark_grey = imagecolorallocate($image, 102, 102, 102); $white = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); //Set the path to our true type font $font_path = 'advent_light'; //Set our text string $string = 'Hello World!'; //Write our text to the existing image. imagettftext($image, 50, -45, 30, 70, $white, $font_path, $string); //Create our final image imagepng($image); //Clear up memory imagedestroy($image); ?>
Notice how we have added an angle of -45 degrees to the function instead of zero (as well as reposition our text some)? This is all that is needed to angle some text onto an image; you should see something like the image below.
Are you having fun yet? No? Well, then let's use a more practical approach and create something that could prove useful.
What's the Date?
Not only can we create images from scratch, but we can create images from existing images! With a little work we can easily create a small 'calendar icon' that displays the current date (month, day, year). A simple Google search for 'blank calendar icon' brought up a free .svg icon that I resized and converted to a .png. So you have an idea of what I am talking about you can view the blank 'calendar below.
Now that we have a canvas to work with, we can use various GD and PHP date functions to make this all come together. Disclaimer: I am not the worlds greatest designer, a better blank icon and choice of fonts would probably be a good idea if I were to be using this 'calendar icon' on a real site. I will leave the designing to all of you. That said, let's look at the final code and then review it.
<?php //Report all Errors ini_set("display_errors", "1"); error_reporting(E_ALL); //Set content type header('content-type: image/jpeg'); //Store the values of our date in separate variables list($month, $day, $year) = explode('/', date('F/jS/Y')); //Load our base image $image = imagecreatefrompng('calendar_blank.png'); $image_width = imagesx($image); //Setup colors and font file $white = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); $black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0); $font_path = 'advent_light'; //Get the positions of the text string $pos_month = imagettfbbox(13, 0, $font_path, $month); $pos_day = imagettfbbox(25, 0, $font_path, $day); $pos_year = imagettfbbox(8, 0, $font_path, $year); //Create Month imagettftext($image, 13, 0, ($image_width - $pos_month[2]) / 2, 40, $white, $font_path, $month); //Create Day imagettftext($image, 25, 0, ($image_width - $pos_day[2]) / 2, 80, $black, $font_path, $day); //Create Year imagettftext($image, 8, 0, ($image_width - $pos_year[2]) / 2, 100, $black, $font_path, $year); //Create final image imagejpeg($image, '', 100); //Clear up memory; imagedestroy($image); ?>
So what is going on here? What is this list() function? All good questions, and we will discuss them all step by step:
- As always we set the header type so the image will display correctly.
- On line 10 you will see we use the list function. We assign the values of the date array (converted to an array via explode()) to the variables inside the list function. This is a handy way of taking array information and assigning it all at once to multiple variables. We can now access the $month, $day, and $year variable individually.
- On line 22-24 we use imagettfbbox() function to retrieve the bounding box of our strings (in a nutshell, the size or length), the function returns an array of values, so to access the lower right corner we could use $pos_month[2]. We need this information so we can automatically position our text correctly no matter the size.
- Lastly we create each string and use some basic math to position the x coordinate of our string.
Assuming the universe did not implode, you should get an image like the one below (except the date should be whatever the current date is on your server, below is a static image of the outcome). Also, thanks to catpin for the help with the script.
Cats and Image Filters
The last thing we will touch on today is the very fun imagefilter() function. The imagefilter function takes a pre defined image and applies a specified filter to the image, such as changing the image to grayscale. Let's look at the image we will be working with, completely untouched.
Now let's convert this crazy kitty to a grayscale image using the imagefilter function.
<?php //Report all errors ini_set("display_errors", "1"); error_reporting(E_ALL); //check to see if a source image is set if(isset($_GET['source'])){ //Perform some very basic sanitation of string $image = filter_var($_GET['source'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //Load image from source provided $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($image); //Change the image to a grayscale image imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_GRAYSCALE); //Set content type header('content-type: image/jpeg'); //Save image with 90 percent quality imagejpeg($image, '', 90); //clear up memory imagedestroy($image); } ?>
I have made the above script a little more flexible, so as to give you the choice of turning any image into a gray-scale image by referencing it like below:

Obviously, you could fill in the 'source' with the path to any image you wish to have it converted to gray-scale. Furthermore, please implement further security measures if you plan on using this on a live server. Also the script above expects to receive a .jpeg image, you can get creative and have it accept all type of images if you wish. Your cat should now look like the image below.
More Filters
To wrap up this lesson, let's take a quick look at other filters that we could use and the results they produce.
Brightness Filter
Adjusts the brightness of a given image, third parameter adjusts the brightness.
<?php header('content-type:image/jpeg'); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg('cat.jpg'); //3rd parameter accepts the brightness level. imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_BRIGHTNESS, 40); imagejpeg($image, '', 90); imagedestroy($image); ?>
Gaussian Blur
Gaussian blurs the image, no parameters accepted.
<?php header('content-type:image/jpeg'); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg('cat.jpg'); imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_GAUSSIAN_BLUR); imagejpeg($image, '', 90); imagedestroy($image); ?>
Third parameter accepts the contrast level.
<?php header('content-type: image/jpeg'); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg('cat.jpg'); imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_CONTRAST, -15); imagejpeg($image, '', 90); imagedestroy($image); ?>
Mean Removal (sketch effect)
No parameters accepted.
<?php header('content-type: image/jpeg'); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg('cat.jpg'); imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_MEAN_REMOVAL); imagejpeg($image, '', 90); imagedestroy($image); ?>
Accepts value of red, green, blue, and alpha channel (optional) in that order.
<?php header('content-type:image/jpeg'); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg('cat.jpg'); //alpha channel parameter omitted below as it is optional. imagefilter($image, IMG_FILTER_COLORIZE, 50, 0, 0); imagejpeg($image, '', 90); imagedestroy($image); ?>
Until next time…
I hope this gave you some insight to the PHP GD library. In part 2, we will go over some more advanced techniques, and, of course, have some more fun. Get creative with the GD library and let me know what you end up with!
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its cool man, i just went trough, but i wanna try this on week end
wow… thx again for this nice walkthrough…
First line should read: "If you're an avid PHP developer, you are probably aware that ImageMagick is faster and easier to use than the aging GD library extension which was last updated since 2007."
Yeah, kudos for imagemagick
Great Stuff Can't wait for the next one!
wow, I didn't know you could do so much with the GD library.
I've always wanted to know how to use the GD library
say Drew and all the others from Envato, you guys are doing a great job undoubtedly BUT is it possible to make only a teaser appear in the RSS feed? I get your entire post in my RSS reader (Google Reader) .. it doesn't make sense.. Do you agree?
I've been following all of the video tutorials since Diving Into PHP started, so I also watched you WordPress for Designers series. I love the video tutorials. Would it be possible to convince you to do a video series (or even just a single video) on CSS?
Keep up the great work!
I second the comments about ImageMagick, that said we recently used JPgraph [ http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/features.php ] on a project (this is based on GD) and it worked out really well for us.
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ImageMagick definitely wins against GD. The only problem is that hardly any hosts support it…
Wow! This is amazing. Looking forward to learn more.
I had used GD before, but these are some awesome examples. In regards to ImageMagick, I used in a project until I realized that the customer's hosting didn't have it installed and refused to do so. GD is more readily available.
On topic of ImageMagick (anyone else notice they spell it differently in different areas of the php site? u.e. Imagick, Imageick, and ImageMagick) I agree that it rocks and it is slightly easier to use than GD, however I have found most hosts *do not* support ImageMagick by default. Since this is a 'part 1′ tutorial, I wanted to start with something that most people would have easy and instant access to, as I have found the GD library is installed by default on nearly every host and server I have ever worked on/with. Maybe we will have an ImageMagick series sometime
@BassP – I'll pass your suggestion on to Jeffrey, unfortunately, I have no control over any of Envatos RSS feeds and their format
@Everyone – Thanks for the comments and your input!
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This might be of value to others. I wrote up the code and tested it only to receive an error:
image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors
After spending an age getting nowhere I commented out the header('content-type: image/png'); statement and found the initial output to be:
Something was causing unwanted output before PNG.
I was using Notepad++ and it was saving as utf-8 with BOM by default. I saved it as utf-8 without BOM and all was well. Lesson learnt.
@Drew – Great intro' to GD.
The only other issue I had was having to add the .ttf extension to the font name. It failed otherwise?!!!
Great introductory tutorial to GD. Going to need thing on an upcoming project.
Good stuff… I have been having trouble inputting font colors though…
My color picker does fine and sends the hexadecimal color to the PHP page that renders the image using the GD Library… but then the problem starts…
I have a small routine which converts the hex to RGB, but for some reason, my font then always comes out black…
Here is my code… any ideas?
Very good tips! Before read this tut I don't know that is possible write with GD. Thank you.
"On topic of ImageMagick (anyone else notice they spell it differently in different areas of the php site? u.e. Imagick, Imageick, and ImageMagick)"
Imagemagick is the base program and "Imagick is a native php extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API."
I prefer using the command line but it needs safemode. I beleve Imagick does not need this ( why they called it Imagick I do not know as it causes confusion ). Imagick does not seem to have as much support and I find the command line simpler to use.
I think before the filters were added in 2007 ? the last time GD was upgraded was 2004?
One of the problems with Imagemagick is that it is improved/bugs removed very regularly but hosts are not to keen on upgrading it so often. My server version is 6.3.5 which is at least 18 months old. The normal basic version on a lot of hosts is 6.05 which comes with some of the standard Linux installs?
If you install Imagemagick on your PC you can run it from the command line or through XAMPP WAMP etc. but make sure you install Ghostscript as well if you are going to be working with text : )
Some nice GD examples and very well explaned.
Sorry needs Safemode turned off – I fogot the turned off part !
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Thats an excellent tutorial for me! It cleared my knowledge with GD library.
And learned a few coding style!
I request u to describe "imageconvolution" function, if u can, since it also can create some filters (as i found in php manual)
Wow!! I like this feture php is very good.


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